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US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a World War I graveyard in France as “losers” and “fools” for being killed in action, according to a report published Thursday in the magazine. Atlantic.
The report, written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, said that Trump had refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American cemetery near Paris in 2018 because he “feared his hair would unravel in the rain,” although the official explanation offered. By the assistants it was that the helicopter that had to take it there could not fly due to the weather.
“In a conversation with senior officials on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s full of losers,'” the article read.
“In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘fools’ for being killed,” the Atlantic added, citing four anonymous people who said they had knowledge. first hand from the discussions. .
Trump criticized the report Thursday night, after his advisers called the accusations “disgusting, grotesque and reprehensible lies.”
“Someone makes up this horrible story that they didn’t want to go to,” he told reporters after returning from a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
“If there really are, if there really are people who would have said that, they are humble and lying people. And I would be willing to swear by anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” he said.
“No animal, no one, what animal would say such a thing?”
However, some critics pointed to Trump’s disparaging remarks about the late Senator John McCain, who was captured in Vietnam and widely regarded as a war hero.
Trump said in the run-up to the 2016 election: “He is not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were not captured.”
The president of the United States acknowledged on Twitter that “he was never a big fan” of McCain, but that the lowering of flags after the death of the senator and his funeral of “first class” in Washington “had to be approved by me, as President, and I did. ” so without hesitation or complaint. On the contrary, I felt it was well deserved. “
“Also, I never called John a loser and swore by whatever, or who I was asked to swear by, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES,” Trump added.
“This is more fabricated fake news given by disgusting and jealous flaws in a shameful attempt to influence the 2020 election!”
About 1,800 US Marines died at the Battle of Belleau Wood, slowing down a German advance toward Paris in 1918.
According to The Atlantic, Trump asked his assistants on his trip to France: “Who were the good guys in this war?” and he could not understand why the United States had come to the aid of the Allies.
Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the Nov. 3 election, said in a statement that if the allegations in the article are true, “then they are another indicator of how deeply President Trump and I disagree on the role of the President of the United States. United”.
“If I have the honor to serve as the next commander-in-chief, I will make sure our American heroes know that I will stand behind them and honor their sacrifice, always,” Biden said.
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